This document discusses academic honesty and its importance for IB Diploma students. It defines academic honesty as completing all academic work without plagiarizing, cheating, or receiving unauthorized assistance. Academic dishonesty means knowingly performing academic work that does not meet the standard of honesty. The document emphasizes that academic integrity fosters trust and a positive learning environment. It introduces MLA referencing and Turnitin tools to help students avoid plagiarism in their IB work. Students are responsible for upholding academic integrity as it raises the value of their IB Diploma.

1. Academic Honesty in
the IB Diploma

2. What is Academic Honesty?
“Academic Integrity/ Honesty” means
performing all academic work without
plagiarism, cheating, lying, tampering,
stealing, receiving unauthorized or
illegitimate assistance from any other
person, or using any source of information
that is not common knowledge.

3. What is Academic Dishonesty?
"Academic Dishonesty" means
knowingly performing, attempting to
perform, or assisting any other person
in performing any academic work that
does not meet this standard of
academic honesty.

4. Why is Academic Honesty Important?
IB Diploma students understand that academic integrity comes from
honesty in learning and research. Genuine and sometimes hard-won
knowledge and respect comes from presenting one’s own work and
acknowledging the work of others.
Personal and academic honesty fosters trust. Mutual trust among all
members of the IB community is essential for a positive learning
environment. Through mutual trust, we can conduct research and
learn with confidence.
Finally, we all have a responsibility to uphold the values of academic
integrity.

5. Academic Honesty and Uplands:
As members of the Uplands community, we are
committed to cultivating an environment of mutual
respect, honesty, fairness, and responsibility,
because we know those values and actions cause
others to respect us and the work we do.
The value of the IB Diploma and the International
School of Penang (Uplands) is raised because of our
academic integrity.

6. So What?
Up until now, you have not formally been held accountable for academic
honesty. Well guess what, the goal posts have changed.
With each of your IB Subjects you will complete research and report on
your findings. Every time you read someone else’s work and include it in a
project or any other assessed submission you have a duty to acknowledge
the source of your information.
If you do not acknowledge where the information came from (a citation)
this is plagiarism and you put at risk your ability to achieve your IB
Diploma.

7. IT IS THAT SIMPLE:
Reflection:
How many times have you submitted work using material
from the internet and not stated where it came from? Did
you plagiarize on purpose? Or were you just ignorant?
If your answer is the latter, does that make it okay?
Do you think the assessors from the IBO will accept
ignorance as an appropriate excuse?

8. How can you avoid Plagiarism?
The IB Diploma stipulates that for all Internal Assessment,
the Extended Essay and TOK essay Academic Honesty is
paramount.
Uplands acknowledges that there are a number of
referencing styles students can use to avoid plagiarism.
Today you will be introduced to 2 tools we use at Uplands to
achieve this crucial objective.

9. MLA Referencing

10. Online resources available:
http://library.williams.edu/citing/styles/mla.php
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

11. How can you & your teachers check your
academic honesty?

12. What does a turnitin report look like?

13. Let’s get you all signed up!

14. Example of Setting up your Turnitin
Account: From Maclachlan College

15. So now you have the ingredients needed
to be able to avoid plagiarism.
Questia:
MLA Referencing:
Turnitin:
Happy researching and happy writing!